linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC][PATCH] set_page_buffer_dirty should skip unmapped buffers

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Date:	Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:19:05 -0700
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>, sct@...hat.com,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] set_page_buffer_dirty should skip unmapped buffers

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 17:34 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 14:47 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > 
> > > > Andrew, what should we do ? Do you suggest handling this in jbd
> > > > itself (like this patch) ?
> > >   Actually that part of commit code needs rewrite anyway (and after that
> > > rewrite you get rid of ll_rw_block()) because of other problems - the
> > > code assumes that whenever buffer is locked, it is being written to disk
> > > which is not true... I have some preliminary patches for that but they
> > > are not very nice and so far I didn't have enough time to find a nice
> > > solution.
> > 
> > Are you okay with current not-so-elegant fix ? 
>   Actually I don't quite understand how it can happen what you describe
> (so probably I missed something). How it can happen that some buffers
> are unmapped while we are committing them?  journal_unmap_buffers()
> checks whether we are not committing truncated buffers and if so, it
> does not do anything to such buffers...
> 							Bye
> 								Honza

Yep. I spent lot of time trying to understand - why they are not
getting skipped :(

But my debug clearly shows that we are clearing the buffer, while
we haven't actually submitted to ll_rw_block() code. (I added "track"
flag to bh and set it in journal_commit_transaction() when we add
them to wbuf[] and clear it in ll_rw_block() after submit. I checked
for this flag in journal_unmap_buffer() while clearing the buffer).
Here is what my debug shows:

buffer is tracked bh ffff8101686ea850 size 1024 

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8020b395>] show_trace+0xb5/0x370
 [<ffffffff8020b665>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20
 [<ffffffff8030d474>] journal_invalidatepage+0x314/0x3b0
 [<ffffffff802fe948>] ext3_invalidatepage+0x38/0x40
 [<ffffffff80282750>] do_invalidatepage+0x20/0x30
 [<ffffffff80260613>] truncate_complete_page+0x23/0x50
 [<ffffffff8026070d>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0xcd/0x300
 [<ffffffff80260950>] truncate_inode_pages+0x10/0x20
 [<ffffffff802686ff>] vmtruncate+0x5f/0x100
 [<ffffffff8029d880>] inode_setattr+0x30/0x140
 [<ffffffff802ff8cb>] ext3_setattr+0x1bb/0x230
 [<ffffffff8029daee>] notify_change+0x15e/0x320
 [<ffffffff8027f973>] do_truncate+0x53/0x80
 [<ffffffff802800f8>] sys_ftruncate+0xf8/0x130
 [<ffffffff80209d5a>] system_call+0x7e/0x83

Thanks,
Badari

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